Have you perhaps seen the videos of Max Keiser on Youtube about the US economy? That guy holds no punches and mentions how the good folk in the US are being flushed down the toilet, taking with them other countries dependant on their consumption. Have a look at his videos, also Peter Schifff’s, that is really informative.

See the video ‘Peter Schiff was right’; that is entertaining.

don’t do it… Politics is based on people.
We (people) are too defective and have many different opinions, so never going to agree in many things. Thus… (because of the wrong way we act) that ends in discussions (when not in fights, or wars)

Better we keep talking about Nikon and photography, don’t you think?

But maybe there could be any lower price for distributor of the “emerging” economies, still keeping a profit for Nikon. I don’t know the costs and profit margins, but probably there could be something to do.

Sure there is a demand for a high speed rather than high resolution camera. That is why there is this dial thingy that you can turn to reduce the number of pixels captured.

And guess what, when you reduce the number of pixels by averaging across two pixel cells, your noise drops. Its like getting another ISO stop.

It is much easier to make the D3x handle like a D3 than you might imagine. And the high number of megapixels means that you can also do the DX trick of extending the effective focal length. So the D3x will also be equivalent to being a 10MP DX camera.

The D3 is certainly not going to disappear from the catalog for a few years. And even when it does there will be dealers selling old stock for ages. But I really cannot see Nikon manufacturing any more. They will have anticipated the residual demand and made as many as they think they will need before switching over to D3x.

Most professionals who want a D3 will have one already. And any residual demand for new D3s is going to be reduced by the flood of second hand models being sold by people trading up to D3x.

I still think you will see a list price premium on entry because Nikon are going to want to avoid running out. Demand may be depressed due to the Bush fiscal crisis, but that makes running out more, not less likely as Nikon are going to be much more cautious about production runs.

I would suspect we will see a large list price that is quickly discounted by dealers.

Bush has been responsible for the personnel at treasury and the Fed for eight years now. He has had every opportunity to respond to the housing bubble, there was no shortage of warnings, none. You could read Krugman warning of a credit problem in the New York Times for years.

If there had been competent appointees at Treasury at least one of them would have run the numbers and realized that the system was unstable. But they had a bunch of folk there who were cronies appointed for their ideological views rather than their expertise. They did start off with a somewhat competent Treasury Secretary but sacked him for pointing out that wars do cost money.

People are not responsible, people do borrow more than they afford, greedy lenders do lend it to them and cook their books to conceal the risk. That is precisely why regulation and vigilance are necessary. During the Clinton years they cut back on certain depression era regulations that make little sense today. But during the Bush era they stopped enforcement entirely.

Case in point being naked shorts, it is still illegal but the SEC decided to make it impossible to enforce. Oh and there is $2 Trillion in failed bond trades that nobody has bothered much to enforce, which is pusing up government borrowing costs. And then there is the $500 billion in unpaid oil and gas royalties that the administration has corruptly failed to collect.

You know, when a Ponzi scheme collapses there are always the investors who think that its the regulators who are to blame for closing the scheme down before they could pull their money out.

If Bush had had his way, your Social Security fund would now be invested in the markets as well.

Due to all the war expenses and endless creation of dollars in the market, the dollar is currently tremendously inflated, and after the Christmas spending boom, the dollar’s inflation will show with a remarkable drop in value and the price of gold and silver will surge, setting off alarm bells.

So, with the near-collapsing, or collapsing, US dollar, the price for a new top-end camera would surely not have the same structure as before, it would cost many more US dollars, because the US dollars are worth less. Perhaps even cost between USD 9,000 and 12,000 due to the currency inflation.

hey !! like to read Ken’s reviews anyway.
I find interesting data in everyone’s reviews.

There is no one perfect review or report that tells everything in every possible situation from every point of view

cheers to Ken, Joe and Jack (the plumber)

I think the economical crisis is more than just economical, and also not only because of few reasons…

And (sorry for the comment, completely out of topic) Bush (and US gov, thus politics) do have something to do with it too, I refer (as an example) to the tremendous waste of money in an unjustifiable war. That hit the US economy in one way or another
Sorry, will avoid to write about that again.

BTW it’s very interesting to see how people from different parts of the world have differents views, strongly based on their culture, education, media, knowledge and way of living.
But also in the same town we have different perspectives..

BTW, we share the same official distributor and service.

The reason of high prices here is because high custom duties, high taxes, etc. Not because high distributor’s profit